MEDIA CONTACT: Sharon Dickman sdickman@rochester.edu
585.275.4128

November 6, 2006

Tea Talk with Patrick Loughney on "The Archeology of American Cinema"

TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester's River Campus

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
Note: Parking is available in the nearby Library Lot and elsewhere on the River Campus.

Loughney is curator of motion pictures at the George Eastman House and director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, the country's first school of film preservation. He oversees a motion picture collection of 3.6 million artifacts, featuring one of the world's most important and unique collections of silent films, the largest collection of Technicolor negatives, and the personal collections of significant directors Cecil B. DeMille, Martin Scorsese, Ken Burns, Norman Jewison, Philip Kaufman, and Spike Lee.

The comments by Loughney are part of the continuing series of Tea Talks sponsored by the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. The talks are presented on selected Sundays in a casual atmosphere with tea and biscuits.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact (585) 275-4461

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